The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... RACTERS . Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His ...
... RACTERS . Homer has excelled all the heroick poets , that ever wrote , in the multitude and variety of his characters . Every god that is admitted into his poem , acts a part which would have been suitable to no other deity . His ...
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... racters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is ftyled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may deserve that title . Gyas ...
... racters of his poem , both as to their variety and novelty . Æneas is , indeed , a perfect character ; but as for Achates , though he is ftyled the hero's friend , he does nothing in the whole poem which may deserve that title . Gyas ...
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... RACTERS , and SENTIMENTS , in the Paradife Loft , we are in the laft place to confider the LANGUAGE ; and , as the learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear particular in ...
... RACTERS , and SENTIMENTS , in the Paradife Loft , we are in the laft place to confider the LANGUAGE ; and , as the learned world is very much divided upon Milton as to this point , I hope they will excufe me if I appear particular in ...
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... RACTERS , the SENTIMENTS , and the LANGUAGE ; and have shown that he excels , in general , under each of these heads . I hope that I have made fe- veral difcoveries which may appear new , even to those who are verfed in critical ...
... RACTERS , the SENTIMENTS , and the LANGUAGE ; and have shown that he excels , in general , under each of these heads . I hope that I have made fe- veral difcoveries which may appear new , even to those who are verfed in critical ...
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... racters of Moloch and Belial prepare the reader's mind for their refpective speeches and behaviour in the fecond and fixth books . The account of Thammuz is finely romantick , and fuitable to what we read among the ancients of the ...
... racters of Moloch and Belial prepare the reader's mind for their refpective speeches and behaviour in the fecond and fixth books . The account of Thammuz is finely romantick , and fuitable to what we read among the ancients of the ...
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Page 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Page 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Page 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Page 230 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...